The Weekly on the 25th of November 2025: The arts in your area

[Community Arts Partnership]

The Weekly offers links to events and offerings from arts organisations and community groups in Northern Ireland.

NOT SEEING THE FULL WEEKLY? CLICK HERE TO VIEW IN YOUR BROWSER Tuesday, 25th of November 2025 If you have an item to submit for inclusion, submit it here or just email us at: in...@capartscentre.com SECTOR NEWS ANTRIM AND NEWTOWNABBEY ARDS AND NORTH DOWN ARMAGH, BANBRIDGE AND CRAIGAVON BELFAST CAUSEWAY COAST AND GLENS DERRY AND STRABANE FERMANAGH AND OMAGH LISBURN AND CASTLEREAGH MID AND EAST ANTRIM MID ULSTER NEWRY, MOURNE AND DOWN FUNDING DEADLINES MORE OPPORTUNITIES Submit an event to the Weekly (Deadline: 3pm sharp each Tuesday) CAP NEWS NEW! CAPtain’s Blog – Creating a Change – Part Two: Agency – Participation as Power Congratulations to Jason Lovell, the Winner of The Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing 2025! Community Arts Partnership seeks YOUR input about our information services (5-min Survey - Google form)  CAP’s Arts Resource Centre – Rooms available for hire in the centre of Belfast Community Arts Partnership – Breathe Project and Online Resource Have you been published by the Poetry in Motion project? Find copies of our publications on our 'eBay for Change' store SECTOR NEWS Arts Council of Northern Ireland – Self-Care Workshops for Individual Artists – various dates in November Individual Artists Digital Evolution Awards – closing 27 Nov National Lottery Organisations Digital Evolution Awards – closing 27 Nov Arts Council of Northern Ireland – Annual Funding Programme 2026/27 – closing 8 Dec Central Good Relations Fund – Small Grants now open – closing 31 Jan 2026 NEW! National Lottery: transforming the cultural landscape Arts Council: Rural Engagement Arts Programme Evaluation SECTOR NEWS Arts Council announces £343,499 for 96 projects that support greater access and participation in the arts for communities across NI   162 artists from Northern Ireland set to benefit from £1 million career development funding, thanks to The National Lottery   Arts Council puts Culture and Climate in the spotlight at Queen’s   Chinese Master Crafters welcomed to Belfast   NEW! NEMO projects granted funding   Arts Council NI – £400,000 of funding announced for mental health and arts projects   Congratulations to Jason Lovell, the Winner of The Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing 2025!   Northern Ireland Screen – Creative Industries New Entrants programme (CINE)   University of Warwick – The State of the Arts – Report   Local Artist – Matt Owns This   Dumbworld and Ulster Orchestra’s ‘How We Stand… How We Breathe’   Kabosh Theatre Company has Rebranded!   NIMHAF: New Works Commission – closing 27 Nov   Golden Fleece Award – applications now open – closing 28 Nov   BBC Northern Ireland’s Two Minute Masterpiece is back! – closing 1 Dec   BBC Writers’ Open Call – closing 2 Dec   XR Innovate Training Programme – to 5 Dec   Send in your proposals for Bounce 2026 – closing 6 Dec   NEW! Vault Christmas Market 2025 returns to Carlisle Memorial – (11am–5pm daily) – 6 and 7 Dec   NEW! WeBuild programme for Women Founders and Entrepreneurs – closing 9 Dec   Amadan Ensemble's 'Manifest' – New Work Development Residency (13 to 16 Jan) – closing 12 Dec   Into Film’s – Games Review Competition (for 5-19 year olds) – to 20 Dec   144th Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition – to 4 Jan 2026   Craft NI showcase at RUA’s 144th Annual Exhibition celebrating the strength of Northern Ireland’s craft designer-makers – to 4 Jan 2026   UK City of Culture 2029 – Expressions of Interest – closing – 11 Jan 2026   Belfast Exposed Launches its “Train the Trainers” Initiative – 24 Jan to 28 Feb 2026   NEW! Sounds Atypical Music Grant Scheme – closing 12 Feb 2026   The Rest of the Story – Ground breaking anthology of mental health activist and survivors voices launched in Belfast   RNIB NI Community Connection – updated bimonthly ONLINE COMMUNITY ARTS & EVENTS ‘How to write a memoir’ with Luciana De Mello – 4-week course – starts 26 Nov Luciana De Mello, Literature NEW! ArtsCare – The Morning Metamorphosis – Transformations – online creative workshops – to Jan 2026 ArtsCare, Well-being Dumbworld and Ulster Orchestra’s ‘How We Stand… How We Breathe’ Dumbworld Ltd, Sound of Belfast, Ulster Orchestra Northern Visions Television Northern Visions TV Please note: the following items are listed in chronological order. ANTRIM AND NEWTOWNABBEY menu / next NEWS, EVENTS & ONLINE Tea Dance at Ballyclare Townhall – 26 Nov & 10 Dec Ballyclare Town Hall, Dance Belfast Actually 2 – Theatre at The Mill – 29 Nov to 3 Jan 2026 Theatre at the Mill, Theatre NEW! Robin Hood: The Panto – 2 Dec to 3 Jan 2026 Theatre at the Mill, Theatre NEW! A Christmas Carol – 3 to 6 Dec The Courtyard Theatre, Fortwilliam Musical Society, Theatre NEW! Judith Keyes School of Ballet: Christmas Showcase – 20 Dec Dance, The Courtyard Theatre Standing Tall – Colin Woodward – to 9 Jan 2026 Flax Gallery, Theatre at the Mill, Exhibition, Visual Arts ARDS AND NORTH DOWN menu / prev / next NEWS, EVENTS & ONLINE Ards and North Down’s Autumn Arts and Heritage Programme Available Now Ards and North Down Borough Council Festive Arts Events in Ards and North Down Ards and North Down Borough Council Festive Arts Events in Ards and North Down Ards and North Down Borough Council ‘Leid AND Lairn’ Returns to Celebrate Ulster-Scots Language and Heritage – Nov Ards Arts Centre Exhibition of Botanical Watercolour Paintings – to 28 Nov Comber Library, Maurice Shannon Art, Visual Art Neil Delamere – Reinventing The Neil – 28 and 29 Nov (date added) Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Verbal Arts The Christmassy Christmas Show of Christmassy Christmasness! – 30 Nov Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Verbal Arts NEW! Botanical Watercolour Painting Exhibition and Workshops – 1 to 31 Dec Holywood Library, Maurice Shannon Art, Visual Art Ards Arts Centre Opens New Solo Exhibitions by Patrick Hickey and Bernie McAdam – to 3 Dec Ards Arts Centre NEW! Creative Peninsula Christmas Fayre – 5 and 6 Dec Creative Peninsula Christmas Fayre NEW! Exhibition Previews at Ards Arts Centre – 11 Dec Ards Arts Centre, Visual Art NEW! Artist Talk: Helen Merrigan Colfer – 11 Dec Ards Arts Centre, Verbal Arts Two Virtuosos, Four Hands – Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy – 14 Dec Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music Ryan McMullan – Friday Night Added – 19 dec Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music The Whistlin’ Donkeys – 16 Jan 2026 Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music An Iarthar | Barbara Rae at Seacourt Print Workshop – to 23 Jan 2026 Seacourt Print Workshop, Late Night Art Bangor Trú – 30 Jan 2026 Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music Ruth McGinley: Glass and Beyond – 14 Feb 2026 Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music Anthony Toner – 21 Feb 2026 Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music Joseph Beech, Organ Recital – 22 feb 2026 Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music The Fureys – a Final Farewell – 1 Mar 2026 Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music Emer Maguire: Notions – 6 Mar 2026 Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Verbal Arts Terry McHugh: Bricking It – 13 Mar 2026 Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Verbal Arts Piatti Quartet: The Cinematic Experience – 15 Mar Music, Portico Arts & Heritage Centre Peter Corry: One Singer Some Songs – 21 Mar 2026 Portico, Music Legends of The 60s – 10 Apr 2026 Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music Legend of Luke Kelly – 25 Apr 2026 Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music Tim McGarry: The Height of Nonsense – 16 May 2026 Portico, Verbal Arts Legends of American Country – 19 June 2026 Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music OPPORTUNITIES Call for Artists! – Join the AND Arts Network Ards and North Down Borough Council OPEN CALL: ForM Sculpture Exhibition 2026 – closing 2 Mar 2026 Ards and North Down Borough Council, ForM Sculpture Exhibition FUNDING NEW! Ballinglen Arts Foundation Bursary – closing 8 Dec Ards and North Down Borough Council TRAING & WORKSHOPS NEW! Botanical Watercolour Painting Exhibition and Workshops – 1 to 31 Dec Holywood Library, Maurice Shannon Art, Visual Art ARMAGH, BANBRIDGE AND CRAIGAVON menu / prev / next NEWS, EVENTS & ONLINE Made @ Millennium Court, Representing Local Artisan Talent Millennium Court “We Are Still Here”: The Unspoken truth of Long Covid Kids Millennium Court, Exhibition, NI Stars NEW! Armagh Georgian Festival – 27 to 30 Nov Armagh City Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council, Armagh Georgian Festival A Day with Bruiser – closing 30 Nov Bruiser Theatre Company The Market Place Theatre & Arts Centre’s New Season brochure – to Dec Market Place Theatre & Arts Centre Healing’ An artistic journey through the experience of Breast Cancer – to 12 Dec Millennium Court, Visual Art Artists Drawn Together – 15 (opening) to 18 Dec Millennium Court John Hewitt International Summer School – 29 June to 4 July 2026 The Market Place Theatre Armagh, John Hewitt International Summer School, Literature Millennium Court – Monthly Queer Art Club Millennium Court FUNDING ABC Funding Opportunities – to 28 Nov Armagh City Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council BELFAST #SaveCQ menu / prev / next NEWS, EVENTS & ONLINE Kabosh Theatre Company has Rebranded! Kabosh Theatre Company "The Unholylands” – In Cinemas now UnHolylands Ulster-Scots Writing Competition Award Ceremony – 26 Nov Linen Hall Library, Ulster-Scots Writing Competition EXHIBITION | Taobh le Taobh by Maria Atanackovic –  to 27 Nov An Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich, Visual Art EXHIBITION | Crann Leagtha by Sharon Kelly & Paddy McCann – to 27 Nov An Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich, Visual Art NEW! Cost | Terry Bradley at The Bradley Gallery – 27 Nov to 5 Dec Terry Bradley Gallery Story Dreamer Immersive Installation – 28 Nov to 10 Dec 2 Royal Avenue, The Nerve Centre The Lyric Theatre – A Christmas Carol – 28 Nov to 10 Jan 2026 The Lyric Theatre, Theatre NEW! Quire Belfast at 2 Royal Avenue – 29 Nov 2 Royal Avenue, Music, Quire Belfast A Day with Bruiser – closing 30 Nov Bruiser Theatre Company The Strand presents: Too Much: Melodrama on Film – to Dec The Strand Cinema, Film Drámaí Gaeilge 10 mBomaite le Belfast Playwrights’ – 3 Dec An Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich, Belfast Playwrights, Theatre NYCNI – Open Audition for Young Singers! – 4 Dec NYCNI, Music Art Market – 4 Dec Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast Islamic Centre NEW! In Conversation – Marie Hanlon and Dr. Susan Hegarty – 4 Dec The MAC QSS Christmas Exhibition & Sale – 4 to 16 Dec QSS (Queens Street Studios) NEW! Across Eurasia, Encountering Ulster – Lin Li Solo Exhibition – 4 Dec to 8 Jan 2026 room2 Belfast, Visual Art NEW! EXHIBITION: Le sruth na beatha | In the flow of being by Liudmila Kalinka – 4 Dec to 15 Jan 2026 An Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich, Visual Art International Day of Persons with Disabilities (3 Dec) – to 5 Dec University of Atypical for Arts and Disability Life After’ Film Screening and Q&A – 5 Dec University of Atypical for Arts and Disability, Film, Film Hub NI QSS Open Studios – 6 Dec QSS (Queens Street Studios) Send in your proposals for Bounce 2026 – closing 6 Dec Bounce Arts Festival, University of Atypical for Arts and Disability NEW! Carols with the Belfast Philharmonic Society – 6 Dec Belfast Philharmonic Choir, Music NEW! Acoustic Picnic – 6 Dec Oh Yeah Music Centre, Kids, Music NEW! Vault Christmas Market 2025 returns to Carlisle Memorial – (11am–5pm daily) – 6 and 7 Dec The Vault Artist Studios NEW! Dom Polski – Polish Christmas Fair at The Duncairn – 7 Dec Dom Polski, The Duncairn NEW! Christmas Storytelling with Liz Weir – 8 Dec Armstrong Storytelling Trust, Belfast Central Library, Libraries NI, Verbal Arts Faerie Press – Dreams: An Anthology – Book Launch – 9 Dec Faerie Press CIC, Linen Hall Library thrive Christmas Soirée – 11 Dec Crescent Arts Centre, Thrive NEW! EastSide Choir Winter Warmer 2025 – 12 Dec Templemore Baths, EastSide Community Choir, Music New Belfast Stories tour dates – 13 Dec Belfast Stories Open Arts – The Sound of Christmas – 13 Dec Open Arts, Music The Listening Room – 13 Dec Art and Wellbeing Belfast Homeward – An Exhibition by Barbara Allen RUA – to 13 Dec ArtisAnn Gallery, Visual Art NEW! ‘Deck the Stalls’ Youth Market at Grand Central Station – 13 Dec Education Authority, Translink, Young Enterprise NI Chromatic Dialogues – 14 Dec Banana Block, Kojo Art X NEW! QSS’ 5th Annual Christmas Raffle – to 16 Dec QSS (Queens Street Studios) Half Light – Charys Wilson – to 17 Dec University of Atypical for Arts and Disability Mandela Hall – Hollie McNish with Michael Pedersen: Brand New Book Tour – 16 Dec Mandela Hall, Out to Lunch Festival, The Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival In Her Own Image / Gathering Time / Fotodziennik – Anna Beata Bohdziewicz, Aneta Grzeszykowska, Teresa Gierzynska & Zofia Rydet – to 20 Dec Belfast Exposed Gallery The MAC – LAST ACT | Marie Hanlon & Rhona Clarke –  to 4 Jan 2026 The MAC, Exhibition, Film, Visual Art The MAC – William McKeown – to 4 Jan 2026 The MAC, Exhibition,  Visual Art The MAC – Sea Skin by Niamh Seana Meehan – to 4 Jan 2026 The MAC, Exhibition, Textiles, Visual Art 144th Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition – to 4 Jan 2026 Ulster Museum, Royal Ulster Academy of Arts Craft NI showcase at RUA’s 144th Annual Exhibition celebrating the strength of Northern Ireland’s craft designer-makers – to 4 Jan 2026 Craft NI, Royal Ulster Academy of Arts, Ulster Museum Laura Nelson – to 4 Jan 2026 The Vault Artist Studios The Black Box – Hiraeth: Yearning for Home? With Michael Smiley and Miranda Sawyer – 11 Jan 2026 The Black Box, Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival, Out to Lunch Festival The Black Box – Work is the Curse of the Drinking Classes – 13 Jan 2026 The Black Box The Black Box – The Hans Zimmer Experience – 16 Jan 2026 The Black Box The Black Box – Rosie Wilby: The Breakup Monologues – 18 Jan 2026 The Black Box Uster Sports Club – Don Letts DJ Set + Explosion Sound System – 24 Jan 2026 Ulster Sports Club The Black Box – Connor Burns: Gallus – 28 Jan 2026 The Black Box No Woman’s Land A Performance by Ciara O’Neill – 30 Jan 2026 Accidental Theatre, Belfast & Lisburn Women’s Aid Mise en Abyme – Sharon Murphy – to 31 Jan 2026 The Golden Thread Gallery The Border That Crossed Me – to 31 Jan 2026 Golden Thread Gallery, Flax Art Studios, Fluxus Art Projects The Lyric Theatre – The Importance Of Being Earnest – 31 Jan to 22 Feb 2026 The Lyric Theatre The Lyric Theatre – Prime Cut Productions – The Human Voice – 12 to 28 Feb 2026 The Lyric Theatre Vampirology – The Science of Horror’s Most Famous Fiend with Kathryn Harkup – 13 Feb 2026 The MAC, NI Science Festival Domination: The Fall & Rise of an Empire with Alice Roberts – 15 Feb 2026 NI Science Festival Green Crime with Julia Shaw – 21 Feb 2026 NI Science Festival The Lyric Theatre – Paines Plough and Park Theatre Co-Production – Consumed – 24 Feb to 8 Mar 2026 The Lyric Theatre NEW! Belfast TradFest – Dougie MacLean – 14 Mar 2026 Belfast TradFest, Music The Lyric Theatre – The Belfast Ensemble – Group! – 24 Mar to 4 Apr 2026 The Lyric Theatre The Lyric Theatre – Lisa Richards Agency – Vittorio Angelone: “You Can’t Say Nothing Anymore” – 8 to 12 Apr 2026 The Lyric Theatre The Lyric Theatre – Druid Theatre – Macbeth – 16 to 18 Apr 2026 The Lyric Theatre The Lyric Theatre – A Lyric Drama Studio Production – Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein – 21 Apr to 2 May 2026 The Lyric Theatre The Lyric Theatre – Tea In A China Cup – 2 to 30 May 2026 The Lyric Theatre The Lyric Theatre – Tim McGarry: The Height of Nonsense – 24 May 2026 The Lyric Theatre The Lyric Theatre – Steel Magnolias – 13 June to 10 July 2026 The Lyric Theatre, Concord Theatricals Ltd Write Club – group-writing session – every Thursday Paperxclips Books, Write Club Queer Yarn – every other Sat Paperxclips Books, Designed To A Tee Belfast Art Gallery Walking Tour – every first Thursday of the Month Belfast Art Gallery Walking Tour ASCERT Recovery choir – every Thursday Ascert, Music Sing Happy Choir – Thursday mornings Sing Happy Choir Scribe Writing Group – meeting monthly Belfast Playwrights, Literature, Voicing the Void JOBS & PAID OPPORTUNITIES ArtsEkta – Project Officer – Dockside Stories – closing 28 Nov ArtsEkta The Strand Arts Centre – Head of Operations – closing 30 Nov Strand Arts Centre Uster Orchestra – Stage Coordinator – closing 30 Nov Ulster Orchestra Data & Research Assistant – closing 3 Dec Musicians' Union Arts for ALL – Arts Co-ordinator – closing 3 Dec Arts for ALL Ulster Orchestra – Section Leader Oboe – closing 10 Dec Ulster Orchestra NEW! Arts Care – Arts Programme Assistant – closing 23 Dec Arts Care NEW! Arts Care – Finance and Admin Assistant – closing 23 Dec Arts Care OPPORTUNITIES Seeking proposals for PS³ PS² Gallery Volunteer with Belfast Children’s Festival! Belfast Children's Festival, Young at Art Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann (2-9 Aug 2026)  – Volunteering Opportunity Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann, Volunteer Now BBC Northern Ireland’s Two Minute Masterpiece is back! – closing 1 Dec BBC Northern Ireland, Film NYCNI – Open Audition for Young Singers! – 4 Dec NYCNI, Music Art Market – 4 Dec Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast Islamic Centre Manifest – New Work Development Residency (13 to 16 Jan) – closing 12 Dec Amadan Ensemble, The MAC, Theatre Works Fest NI Summer Youth Production Audition – Registration Open – 10 to 18-Yrs – closing 23 Jan 2026 Grand Opera House, Kids FUNDING CQAF Music Bursary 2026 – closing 2 Jan 2026 Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival, Belfast City Council, Music WORKSHOPS & TRAINING Arts Council of Northern Ireland – Self-Care Workshops for Individual Artists – various dates in November Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Baring Foundation ‘How to write a memoir’ with Luciana De Mello – 4-week course – starts 26 Nov Luciana De Mello, Literature Comedia of Errors – Creative Reset – 29 Nov Commedia of Errors NEW! Quirky Poses, Inky lines – Life Drawing at Pigment Space – 30 Nov People Are Stories, Visual Arts Creative Training Bitesized – 2 Dec Arts and Business NI Art and your environment – Cyanotype Workshop – 3 Dec University of Atypical for Arts and Disability Ulster Museum – Festive Paint & Prosecco – 13 Dec Ulster Museum, Make Space Studio, Visual Arts NEW! ArtsCare – The Morning Metamorphosis – Transformations – online creative workshops – to Jan 2026 ArtsCare, Well-being Amadan Ensemble’s – Theatre Works Fest 2026 – 10 to 16 Jan 2026 Amadan Ensemble Light & Colour at Ulster Museum: A Weekend of Irish Painting using Gouache – starts 24 Jan 2026 Ulster Museum, Make Space Studio, Visual Arts Belfast Exposed Launches its “Train the Trainers” Initiative – 24 Jan to 28 Feb 2026 Belfast Exposed WOMEN’STEC – Connecting Communities (Every Friday) – to Mar 2026 WOMEN'STEC Belfast TradFest Summer School 2026 – 27 to 31 July 2026 Belfast TradFest, Music Arts for ALL – Men’s Art Workshop – Every Thursday (20 Weeks) Arts for ALL Arts for ALL – Artscape – Age 7-11 yrs – Art Workshop – Saturdays 2-4pm Arts for ALL Arts for ALL – Picasso – 0-4 yrs – Arts Workshop – Mondays 10.30 to 11.30am Arts for ALL CAUSEWAY COAST AND GLENS menu / prev / next NEWS, EVENTS & ONLINE Wheelworks – Change Maker – Nov to Feb 2026 WheelWorks Arts Limavady Art Group Exhibition – to 19 Dec Roe Valley Arts and Cultural Centre, Visual Art Pavestones Collective –  to 19 Dec Roe Valley Arts and Cultural Centre, Visual Arts Christmas Craft Market Launch –  to 23 Dec Flowerfield Arts Centre The Daintifyt Years Exhibition – to 28 Feb 2026 Roe Valley Arts and Cultural Centre DERRY AND STRABANE menu / prev / next NEWS, EVENTS & ONLINE The 38th Foyle Film Festival – Programme Now Live – to 30 Nov Film, Foyle Film Festival, Nerve Centre Dementia Friendly Tea Dances – 27 Nov Millennium Forum Island Voices 2025 – The Chronicles of Identity – C.S. Lewis – An Irish and Ulster-Scots Writer – 27 Nov Derry City and Strabane District Council, Literature Beauty and the Beast – Audio Described Performance on 21 Dec – Other Shows – 28 Nov to 31 Dec Millennium Forum A Day with Bruiser – closing 30 Nov Bruiser Theatre Company Sensory Musical Theatre Group – 11 to 18 years – to Dec Millennium Forum Act Your Age Drama Group – to 11 Dec Millennium Forum Dura, solo exhibition from Ciarraí MacCormac – to 20 Dec Centre for Contemporary Art Derry~Londonderry, Visual Art Piseóg: Bad Luck of the Irish – 13 Feb 2026 The Playhouse, NI Science Festival Behind the Seams Walking Tour – 21 Feb 2026 NI Science Festival Miss Saigon – Audio Described Performance – 28 May – Other performances – 26 to 30 May 2026 Millennium Forum JOBS & PAID OPPORTUNITIES Leap Lessons – Teacher of Singing, Guitar, Bass, Piano Drums Leap Lessons, Music WORKSHOPS & TRAINING XR Innovate Training Programme – to 5 Dec The Nerve Centre FERMANAGH AND OMAGH menu / prev / next NEWS, EVENTS & ONLINE Connection | Veronica Buchanan at Strule Arts Centre – to 29 Nov Strule Arts Centre The Hunchback of Notre Dame – 2 to 6 Dec Strule Arts Centre, Hazel Wand Theatre School, Theatre The Sperrin Arts Society Exhibition – 4 Dec (launch) to 17 Jan 2026 Strule Arts Centre, Sperrin Arts Society, Visual Arts WORKSHOPS & TRAINING Festive Pottery with Anna McGurn – Adults – 28 Nov The Ardhowen, Ceramics Festive Pottery with Anna McGurn – 8-12 yrs – 29 Nov The Ardhowen, Ceramics, Kids Christmas Natural Wreath Workshop – 28 Nov Strule Arts Centre Christmas Artificial Wreath Workshop – 5 Dec Strule Arts Centre NEW! Make Your Own Christmas Snowman: Family Workshop – 6 Dec Strule Arts Centre, Visual Arts NEW! Méara Smeadraílte – Bilingual Messy Play – for up to 10 yrs – 12 Dec Strule arts Centre, Kids, Visual Arts NEW! “Twinkle, Twinkle…” Christmas Art Workshop – for 9 to 11 yrs – 13 Dec Strule arts Centre, Kids, Visual Arts NEW! “Oh Christmas tree…” Christmas Art Workshop – for 6 to 8 yrs – 13 Dec Strule arts Centre, Kids, Visual Arts Folk Dancing with Marie Phelan – Weekly (Wed) – to 17 Dec The Ardhowen, Dance LISBURN AND CASTLEREAGH menu / prev / next NEWS, EVENTS & ONLINE MMM#14 – ‘Materials, Messages and Meaning #14: Experimental Dialogues’ – Group Exhibition at R-Space Gallery – to 28 Nov R-Space Gallery Silver Screen Socials: Miracle on 34th Street (1947) – 8 Dec ISLAND Arts Centre (Studio Theatre), Film Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council Launches Anna Cheyne Visual Art Award 2026 Centenary – Open Call for Artists – deadline 15 Dec ISLAND Arts Centre, Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council Christmas Cracker Tea Dance – 17 Dec Dance, ISLAND Arts Centre OPPORTUNITIES Charitable occupation opportunities in County Down – Sprucefield Shopping Centre CSR Property Solutions, Sprucefield Shopping Centre FUNDING Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council Launches £483k Community Grants Programme – closing 28 Nov ISLAND Arts Centre, Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council MID AND EAST ANTRIM menu / prev / next NEWS, EVENTS & ONLINE Rites of Passage exhibition – travelling to 25 Mar 2026 The Braid Museum and Arts Centre, Larne Museum & Arts Centre, Carrickfergus Museum & Civic Centre MID ULSTER menu / prev / next NEWS, EVENTS & ONLINE An Coire Film Club – Róise & Frank – 5 Dec An Coire, An Carn, Film Poetry Book Club With Niamh McNally – 6 Dec Seamus Heaney HomePlace, Literature, Poetry New Autumn Events Programme at Seamus Heaney HomePlace Seamus Heaney HomePlace WORKSHOPS & TRAINING FizzWizzPop’s ‘I can do magic too’ Workshop – 29 Nov An Coire Arts Centre, An Carn,  Kids, Visual Arts Silver Necklace or Earrings Workshop – 29 Nov Seamus Heaney HomePlace Christmas Wreath Workshop – 2 Sessions – 3 Dec An Carn, Visual Arts NEW! Christmas Reindeer Decorations Workshop – for 5+ yrs – 6 Dec Seamus Heaney HomePlace, Kids, Visual Arts Mini Makers: Christmas Card Printing – for 5-8 yrs & 9-12 yrs – 13 Dec An Coire Arts Centre, An Carn, Kids, Visual Arts Christmas Wreath-Making Workshop – 13 Dec Seamus Heaney HomePlace, Welig Crafts NEWRY, MOURNE AND DOWN menu / prev / next NEWS, EVENTS & ONLINE 15mins’ portrait – 29 Nov YWAM 2026 Craft Makers Peer Support Network – apply by 10 Dec Craft NI, Newry Mourne and Down District Council Barry’s Beats Disco – for People with Autism and Learning Difficulties – 23 Dec Autism Initiatives Northern Ireland, Music, Newcastle Community Cinema Down Arts Collective – 1st Thursday of every month Down Arts Collective FUNDING DEADLINES The Fore – Spring 2026 Funding Round – Registration – 26 Nov to 3 Dec The Fore Individual Artists Digital Evolution Awards – closing 27 Nov Arts Council of Northern Ireland National Lottery Organisations Digital Evolution Awards – closing 27 Nov National Lottery Individual Artists Digital Evolution Awards – closing 27 Nov Arts Council of Northern Ireland Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council Launches £483k Community Grants Programme – closing 28 Nov ISLAND Arts Centre, Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council ABC Funding Opportunities – to 28 Nov Armagh City Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council Arts Council of Northern Ireland – Annual Funding Programme 2026/27 – closing 8 Dec Arts Council of Northern Ireland NEW! Ballinglen Arts Foundation Bursary – closing 8 Dec Ards and North Down Borough Council Central Good Relations Fund – Small Grants now open – closing 31 Jan 2026 The Executive Office NEW! Sounds Atypical Music Grant Scheme – closing 12 Feb 2026 University of Atypical for Arts and Disability, Music Grand Plan – £1,000 grants for UK artists of colour Grand Plan New Fund to Combat Hate launched by CFNI Community Foundation for Northern Ireland Community Foundation NI – Micro Community Investment Fund – rolling fund Community Foundation for Northern Ireland Travel Award for Bands – rolling programme Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Music National Lottery Awards for All – Open Now The National Lottery Community Fund Grants for physical activity providers – applications open Parkinsons UK Power NI - Brighter Communities Fund - ongoing Power NI MORE JOBS, NEWS, EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES menu / prev NIMHAF: New Works Commission – closing 27 Nov Northern Ireland Mental Health Arts Festival Data & Research Assistant – closing 3 Dec Musicians' Union Dance Connects – Call for Surveys for dance facilitators, artists, and dance venues in Monaghan, Cavan, Fermanagh and Omagh – ongoing Dance Connects Kilbaha Gallery – David Coyne Kilbaha Gallery NEW! Kilbaha Gallery – Kaye Maahs – New Collection Kilbaha Gallery Share on facebook Tweet forward by email Disclaimer: Community Arts Partnership cannot be held responsible for the content of externally linked sites. Community Arts Partnership aims to ensure that all information contained in the Weekly is valid at the time of posting.   Community Arts Partnership supports and promotes artistic activities taking place in the 11 Northern Ireland Councils. Thank you to our core funders Arts Council of Northern Ireland, The National Lottery, Belfast City Council, Halifax Foundation NI  & The Baring Foundation Copyright © 2025 Community Arts Partnership, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you are a subscriber to Community Arts Partnership's communications, these include the Weekly bulletin and the Monthly arts sector magazine. 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